Can you heal on click with keyboard and mouse combination?

[meiam]

I'm used to healing by clicking on people name in a party list and using mouse and keyboard combination. So for example, if I want to cast "heal 1" I'll left click on someone name, if I want to cast "heal 2" I'll right click, "heal 3" would be ctrl left click, "heal 4" alt left click and so on.

But it sounds like the closest thing is mouseover macro which I find much worse so I'm hoping there's some work around or addon that let you do it.

[Omega24]

sounds like my friend, she used healing mods for WoW and when i got her to heal in FF14 that was one of the first things she had a time getting used to.

[Jethro]

Having add on like VuhDo would be nice but fights are way more predictable than WoW to actually have need for it.

[Yenkei]

I was in the same boat when I moved over but you don't really need it tbh

Fights in XIV are mechanic based so you don't always need to be healing, like Jethro said it's more predictable, in the sense that things are either scripted or telegraphed

If anything maybe just make your party list bigger and move it closer to the middle

[meiam]

Originally posted by Yenkei:

I was in the same boat when I moved over but you don't really need it tbh

Fights in XIV are mechanic based so you don't always need to be healing, like Jethro said it's more predictable, in the sense that things are either scripted or telegraphed

If anything maybe just make your party list bigger and move it closer to the middle

The fact that you're not always healing is the main reason why I'd like it even more, that way I could split the keyboard for just DPS and effortlessly switch between them without needing to setup 15+ keyboard shortcut and have to do awkward finger gymnastic.

TBH it sound like FF14 is on the easy/simple scale as far as group PvE content and they're limited by poor control/UI (probably to account for console) and lack of addon (it sounds like they don't exist even in un supported form outside of visual one?). Probably not for me then.

[Yenkei]

Originally posted by meiam:

Originally posted by Yenkei:

I was in the same boat when I moved over but you don't really need it tbh

Fights in XIV are mechanic based so you don't always need to be healing, like Jethro said it's more predictable, in the sense that things are either scripted or telegraphed

If anything maybe just make your party list bigger and move it closer to the middle

The fact that you're not always healing is the main reason why I'd like it even more, that way I could split the keyboard for just DPS and effortlessly switch between them without needing to setup 15+ keyboard shortcut and have to do awkward finger gymnastic.

TBH it sound like FF14 is on the easy/simple scale as far as group PvE content and they're limited by poor control/UI (probably to account for console) and lack of addon (it sounds like they don't exist even in un supported form outside of visual one?). Probably not for me then.

Yeah they'd be nice to have for sure, but I don't think SE will ever let addons like that in, even stuff like ACT and GShade, while they likely won't get you banned are still in the grey area because they're against the TOS

I wouldn't say XIV is simple with healing, just different from WOW and really scripted, but because the healing IS scripted they tend to make the raidwides and damage that your party does take really high so you still do plenty of healing, you just happen to know when it's coming, so it's more about preplanning and less about reacting

Some fights like E12s for example are incredibly heal intensive, especially on release, to the point where raidwides are just wipes if they're not mitigated and shielded properly

[Rin]

Mouseover macros for heal/support skills is your number one friend in this game. Just don't macro anything else as the downside is quite large due to skills being queued.

This way you "can" play resto as a whm or any other healer for that matter.

I.e;
/micon "Healz"
/ac "Healz" <mo>
/ac "Healz" <me>

You'll still have the spell be queued but it's better than dealing with the cancer of having to manually target and lose your focus. In the end you save more time by doing this regardless.

Now since this isn't a standard you'll often see most of it not all console players and plebs only focus on one thing at a time. And this only adds even more time wasted on things that could've gone faster which only adds up the more/longer you play.

Even if it's just DF, the healer only being a healbot can add 5-10min extra each run (...multiply by X runs and you get the idea). Especially for dungeons where WHMs shine which is lvl 50-70 content, which happens to be why they removed Aero 3. I mean we can't have a good WHM dealing more deeps than the crappy DPS now can you?